This forum has many comments that essentially boil down to something like "thanks/you're welcome/+1/this/me too/same/agree/disagree" that dilute signal-to-noise
I imagine most of these commentators also upvoted their parent comment, and the comment itself doesn't add much more than noise beyond that
I think I agree with you in most cases, but every 1 in 5 or so I think, "Oh, it's interesting that [Person X in particular] thinks that," or "Aww, it's sweet that this person was so grateful for the parent comment that they felt they had throw in a comment on top of a strong upvote," or "Haha, lc you beat me to it."
Surprised how concentrated shortform authorship is. So far in 2023:
EA Forum:
25/125 (20%) @Nathan Young
9/125 (7%) @Evan_Gaensbauer
Lesswrong:
26/252 (10%) @DragonGod
10/252 (4%) @lc
assuming my code's accurate enough:grep -Eo 'CommentUserName-author">.+?<' shortform.div | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
As evidence increases for cognitive effects of poor air quality:
https://patrickcollison.com/pollution
There may be initial opportunities for extra impact by prioritizing monitoring and improving air quality in important decision-making buildings like government buildings, headquarters, etc
Those papers don't look very convincing. Check out:
https://vincentbagilet.github.io/inference_pollution/
This paper looks to be the best:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180279
Reminder AmazonSmile shuts down tomorrow if anyone else wants to shop more today and/or less going forward:
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact
+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640
Is it possible to re-collapse a shortform after expanding it on /allPosts? If so, how? If not, feature request :)
+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536
Offput that 80k hours advises "if you find you aren’t interested in [The Precipice: Existential Risk], we probably aren’t the best people for you to get advice from". Hoped there was more general advising beyond just those interested in existential risk
Some other career orgs:
And for what it's worth, 80,000 Hours has a bunch global health & animal related postings on their job board.
Perhaps also https://www.trainingforgood.com/ and the more niche https://bluedotimpact.org/
I've been lazily throwing job related links here https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YCobjyMhaKHArjwQt/what-resources-should-job-seekers-know-about